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Let us first start with the definitions

About GitLab:

Git and GitHub both are amazing tools for managing lots of repositories. GitLab is famous web-based Git. It is used as repository Manager with wiki and tracking features. It is just like the hosted accounts like to GitHub. GitLab product was split in two ways as:

GitLab CE: Community Edition

GitLab EE: Enterprise Edition

The license of the GitLab CE and GitHub EE is free and open source software. It is distributed under the MIT License. GitLab B.V. is written in Ruby and in 2014 GitLab B.V. announced the adoption of an Open core business model. The GitLab EE is set inside the proprietary license. It contains the features not present in the CE version. GitLab user interface is to manage the project well.

Now need to install the GitLab Shell:-Use following command for downloads the GitLab Shell:

Now you need to copy GitLab Shell 1.7.0 and then example is ready config.yml

If your domain name is pointed at this VPS and after that you need to take the time to edit config.yml to use this domain:

nano config.yml

On the top side you will be a line look like following:

gitlab_url: http://localhost/

Here you should change the http://localhost/ portion with your domain name. After that your domain is www.abcddomain.com the line is look like following:

gitlab_url: http://www.abcddomain.com/

Than you can run the GitLab shell installer:

sudo -u git -H ./bin/install

Database Setup:-

In the back-end we need to use MySQL for GitLab setup. There the first step is to install MySQL with the following command.

with the following command.

sudo apt-get install -y mysql-server mysql-client libmysqlclient-dev

Now installation of MySQL is complete and the root password is set which value you have to choose in last step. Now we need to create the MySQL user for using GitLab. After that save the required SQL queries to a temporary file. Such as:

nano tempfile

Paste in the below section and changing the $password on the first line to the main password.

Conclusion:

Those are some of the important commands and processes for doing the setup of GitLab as your very own Private GitHub Clone . We have covered each step with informative concepts. All the steps are easy. All you have to is follow the tutorial and get your concepts right. Stay connected with us and updates your knowledge with more such topics.